Having Zoom Call Issues? You Can Join Multiple Internet Connections Together with Speedify – Like Starlink, Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G, and DSL – to Fix That
Audio cutting out, a face frozen mid-sentence and then the whole Zoom call ending are three symptoms of one problem: the single internet connection your computer or phone uses cannot deliver data without pauses. A busy household network or a fading Wi-Fi signal is usually enough.
Speedify is an app that lets your device use Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular together, and it can give live video priority so a pause on one internet connection is far less likely to reach the people you are talking to. Speedify can only keep you online through a drop when it has two or more internet connections to work with, for example Wi-Fi plus your phone’s 4G/5G cellular. On a single connection, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and cannot stop that connection from dropping. The rest of this article names the causes of Zoom call trouble and the settings that keep a call intact when you use Speedify.
Why Zoom Calls Keep Dropping or Breaking Up
Most of the time the cause is the quality of your internet connection, and usually one of the following:
- Other apps are hogging the internet bandwidth. At some point there might not be enough left to send and receive the audio and video packets that Zoom needs;
- Slow Internet speed. Some Internet connections just aren’t fast enough to send and receive the Zoom streaming packets;
- High packet loss. Internet connections are dropping network packets, so Zoom misses parts of the audio or video. This usually happens at the edge of the range on wireless connections like Wi-Fi and cellular.
And if you’re moving while using the Internet (riding on trains and buses, for example), you can experience all of these things in one call. That’s because the coverage varies as you travel through hills and tunnels and bridges.
So you need better Internet that is faster, more reliable or, in most cases, both. Speedify is built for that.
How Speedify’s Enhance Streaming Setting Keeps Zoom Calls Stable
Speedify is an app that combines internet connections and encrypts them like a VPN, using packet-level technology to combine 2 or more Internet connections together simultaneously. With Enhance Streaming, which is on by default in Speed mode (the app shows it as Speed +), Speedify automatically detects audio and video streams. Speedify does that by looking at packet headers, and the patterns in the packets being sent and received. By watching the flow of packets, Speedify can determine:
- how much bandwidth Zoom is trying to use, and
- whether or not it is getting the capacity it requires.
Once Speedify has identified the streams, it does several things for them:
- Maintains Quality of Service (QoS) to make sure they get the connectivity they need versus other services. Speedify prioritizes Zoom streaming traffic over other types of web traffic. Things like web browsing, backups and software updates won’t mess up your calls and live streams.
- Combines connections for faster Internet speed. Speedify can split single Zoom streams across multiple available Internet connections. It can send some packets on Wi-Fi, some on cellular and some on a wired Ethernet connection, if available. Speedify also reassembles these packets so the app just sees a faster Internet connection. By moving network packets through all available connections on a computer, smartphone, tablet or other supported device, Speedify can get up to 95% of the speed of the combined connections.
- Minimizes packet loss using redundancy. If your internet connections are dropping network packets, Speedify can detect this and start sending the packets redundantly, on all available internet connections at the same time. Speedify only delivers whichever copy gets through first, which gives your call the reliability of all your connections and the lowest latency of any of them. That way Speedify helps your call survive network dropouts and makes sure more of your audio and video gets through when one connection struggles.
Here’s what happens under the hood of Enhance Streaming. Speedify adds timing information to every network packet, so it can gather statistics in real-time. As connections change, and other apps start or stop sending data, Speedify adjusts its strategies on the fly. So, you might be combining connections on the bridge, but Speedify will automatically switch your call to redundancy as soon as you enter the tunnel. You don’t need to worry about it. Just make your Zoom call.
Enhance Streaming Is On by Default for Zoom Calls in Speedify
Speed mode with Enhance Streaming is Speedify’s default setting, so your Zoom calls get it as soon as Speedify connects. There is nothing to switch on. For an important call that must not drop, switch to Redundant mode: it sends every packet over up to three connections at once, but it uses more data and runs at the speed of your fastest single connection.
To learn more about Enhance Streaming, check out the Speedify Knowledge Base article.
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